1879 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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of our work. At present, it is quite limited. Of 

 course, first of all is the learning of the language. 

 We have suffered many interruptions to study 

 during the year, but are progressing quite rapidly 

 now. Miss Fron and Mrs. Sibley have just com- 

 menced a little school for girls, teaching them to 

 sew- and to do different kinds of work, and teaching 

 the Hindoostani language, in Roman characters. 



"We have a Sabbath school of English and Eurasian 

 children. The Eurasian are the Indian and English 

 races mixed. They speak English and are respecta- 

 ble people. There are some excellent Christians 

 among them. Then there is a service in the evening 

 for the people, a congregation of from 30 to 30 per- 

 sons. This work is not unimportant as these people 

 are born in the country and have the language per- 

 fectly, and, if they are earnest Christians, they are a 

 power for good among the natives. We feel that 

 there are one or two who are only waiting a plain 

 call to forsake all and enter the mission work. 

 Caste is the great obstacle to the work here. If a 

 man breaks his caste, he might just as well be the 

 one inhabitant of an iceberg in the midst of the 

 Atlantic Ocean, as far as social life among his own 

 people is concerned; and caste enters so into all the 

 minutiae of life that the people are ever watchful 

 for fear that they will transgress. Don't understand 

 that caste prohibits sin; not at all, but rather en- 

 courages it. Many are tired of its oppressions and 

 tyranny, but they fear it so much that they will not 

 come out. They must come in bodies when they do 

 come. In the south of India, they have been coming- 

 over in bodies. Atone time, a thousand came in 

 and threw down their idols, and asked to be taught 

 of Christ. 



We are in th3 centre of a country where there are 

 no other missionaries. Going out 1(1 miles east, 

 south, and west of us, there are, at least, 75,000 peo- 

 ple;— 30,0J0 in Ellichpur, 11,000 in the Cantonment, 

 and the rest in villages of 300 to 8,000. For this great 

 number there are three missionaries,— Miss Fron, 

 Mrs. Sibley, and myself. If Bro. Norton recovers, 

 he will work among the Koorkoos. These number 

 90,000. Thus you see we do not lack for fields to till. 

 But, Oh! the laborers are so few! There is the sow- 

 ing, the watering, the tending, the waiting, and the 

 gathering of every early ripened stalk, until the 

 whole field is ripened for the harvest. I hope that 

 we may have your earnest prayers for the work here. 

 I feel my own insufficiency very deeply, but God 

 does help me. In Him alone do I trust for needed 

 wisdom and strength. I often feel like saying with 

 Jeremiah, "Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak, 

 for I am a child." But then there come to me the 

 blessed promises given to Jeremiah, and my soul is 

 lifted up in God. 



I trust that you may be greatly prospered in your 

 business. I rejoice with all in the triumph of sound, 

 right principle, in the fall elections, and in the suc- 

 cessful return to specie payments. Don't think 

 t hat you must take time to answer this. I have long 

 felt indebted to you for the encouragement I have 

 received through Gleanings. Gcd bless you. 



Your brother in Christ, J. W. Sibley. 



Ellichpur, East Beras, India, Feb. 7, 1879. 



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M 8 I am a boy yet and have not much money to 

 /r«v\ spend, I save all 1 can. I do not use tobacco 

 «!=*i like all the other boys here; I think I can 

 save that. I expect to have a nice Lot of bees next 

 year. F. B. Kr.vtz. 



Perkiomenville, Pa.. July :.':.', '79. 



I commenced thn spring with one colony, and 

 now bave four, and they all seem to be doing well. 



Perhaps I am rather young for a bee keeper, only 

 sixteen. The lirst swarm came out in June, the ~':;<i, 

 and has tilled the hive full. The other two are not 

 rilled so full. I must brag a little over my neighbor; 

 be bought 2 colonies, and a lot of hives, and they 

 have not swarmed yet, and one of them is dead. So 

 I have come out ahead. Wakhen II. Follit. 



Hartford, Pa., Aug. 8, 1879. 



I am always glad to see boys of 16 come 

 out ahead, friend F., but I do not like to see 

 them brag when their neighbor's bees die; 

 yon did not mean to do this, did you? 



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This department was suggested by one of the 

 clerks, as an opposition to the "Growlery." I think 

 I shall venture to give names in full here. 



fj^KjBO. A. I. ROOT:— I believe in my soul you are 

 jr(Tj8» a scholar and a gentleman, and disposed to 

 —*-*' be kind hearted. My Gleanings ran out, 

 when I hadn't a cent; I asked to have it continued 

 just a lectir longer, and to-day I received it all right. 

 I now have money, and lots of it. Why, 1 expect I 

 have $13. or $13.; bos ides my good wife has 50 cts. 

 or a dollar! Dr. A. C. Williams. 



Hugo, 111., July 23, 1879. 



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[This department is to be kept for the benefit of 

 those who are dissatisfied; and when anything is 

 amiss, I hope you will "talk right out." As a rule 

 we will omit names and addresses, to avoid being 

 too personal.] 



£^ FEW days ago we received a letter, 

 i^, addressed as follows : 



"To Mr. or Mrs. A. I. Boot, Medina, O. 

 (Private Correspondence)." 



The letter, when opened, was found to 

 read as follows-: 



Sir:— About two weeks since, I sent to your ad- 

 dress one dollar, asking you to send me your full 

 sized smooth plane, and Gleanings for six months. 

 Enclosed you will find a true copy of bill and draft 

 of plane received. Now what have you got to say 

 in justification, for swindling me out of 75cts? You 

 have sent me an article that I did not want, and did 

 not order, and charged me for it 50cts. more than it 

 is worth. Now, if you have a clerk doing that kind 

 of business, it is time you knew it. On the other 

 hand, I think, if a man of your great moral prrtr n- 

 sioits will do a business of that kind, you may look 

 for a warm hereafter. At all events (as I have 

 plenty of means, and proof positive of fraud) I am 

 bound to sift this matter to the bottom, unless you 

 can give me a satisfactory explanation immediately. 



Frankfort, Mich., July 14, 1879. D. M. 



There are two points which I wish to il- 

 lustrate by this letter. The first is, that our 

 friend takes it for granted that there was 

 intentional fraud, because he paid 75 cts. for 

 a plane, and received a 2oc. one. From his 

 letter, I should infer that the idea had never 

 occurred to him, that it might have been a 

 mistake, and unintentional. As it is human 

 like to be hasty, and to lack charity, I can 

 forgive him, and I have given the letter, 

 principally, that we may all take a lesson 

 from it, myself included. Let us be slow to 

 anger, and slow in deciding that any one 

 lias a deliberate purpose of wronging us. 

 The girl who put up the goods had, by mis- 

 take, picked up the smaller sized plane. 

 They were neatly tied up ready for mailing, 

 and from the outside appearance of the 

 packages, there was little difference except 

 in size. She has put up packages for mail- 

 ing for a year or two, and this is almost the 

 lirst mistake I ever knew her to make. A 

 body ought to be excused, should they not, 

 if tney only make mistakes one time in a 

 thousand? But, on the other hand, this 

 may have been, and probably \vas, the first 

 order friend M. had ever sent us; the first 

 time, he got for his money a cheap and in- 

 ferior article. What is to be done V 



